House panel to include IP concerns in Duterte’s agenda

MANILA The House Committee on Indigenous Cultural Communities (ICCs) and Indigenous Peoples (IPs) is eyeing to craft a resolution seeking to include IPs' concerns in the national policy agenda of President Rodrigo Duterte.

During a committee hearing on the complaints of various Lumad leaders regarding the continuing atrocities of the New People's Army against IPs, North Cotabato Rep. Nancy Catamco urged the panel to pass a resolution for the government to prioritize the concerns of IPs and be highlighted in the 10-point socioeconomic agenda of the President.

"It's about time for this committee to pass a resolution (highlighting) that the concerns and issues of the IPs should be part of the national policy agenda of the President," Catamco said.

Meanwhile, ANAC-IP party-list Rep. Jose Panganiban Jr. stressed the need to provide a higher budget for the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) to address the plight of IPs when it comes to peace and development.

NCIP chairperson Leonor Oralde-Quintayo, on the other hand, called for a whole-of-government approach to address insurgency, noting that her agency alone cannot address it.

"The budgetary constraints should not hamper the efforts of the government to address the insurgency. This is a time of convergence where all government agencies will contribute and try to address as a whole the issue on insurgencies," Oralde-Quintayo said.

House panel to include IP concerns in Duterte’s agenda

MANILA The House Committee on Indigenous Cultural Communities (ICCs) and Indigenous Peoples (IPs) is eyeing to craft a resolution seeking to include IPs' concerns in the national policy agenda of President Rodrigo Duterte.

During a committee hearing on the complaints of various Lumad leaders regarding the continuing atrocities of the New People's Army against IPs, North Cotabato Rep. Nancy Catamco urged the panel to pass a resolution for the government to prioritize the concerns of IPs and be highlighted in the 10-point socioeconomic agenda of the President.

"It's about time for this committee to pass a resolution (highlighting) that the concerns and issues of the IPs should be part of the national policy agenda of the President," Catamco said.

Meanwhile, ANAC-IP party-list Rep. Jose Panganiban Jr. stressed the need to provide a higher budget for the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) to address the plight of IPs when it comes to peace and development.

NCIP chairperson Leonor Oralde-Quintayo, on the other hand, called for a whole-of-government approach to address insurgency, noting that her agency alone cannot address it.

"The budgetary constraints should not hamper the efforts of the government to address the insurgency. This is a time of convergence where all government agencies will contribute and try to address as a whole the issue on insurgencies," Oralde-Quintayo said.

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